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Avelyne Giffard, widow of John Giffard of Brimpsfield. Giffard Avelyne King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/112/5596

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Reference
SC 8/112/5596
Date
[1323]
Description
Petitioners
Avelyne Giffard, widow of John Giffard of Brimpsfield.
Name(s)
Giffard, Avelyne
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Giffard requests that she be assigned certain lands so that she can live as the lands that were late her husband's, both those that were purchased in which was jointly enfeoffed, and those of his inheritance, have been taken into the king's hand.
Nature of endorsement
She should come into Chancery and declare what tenement she demands and the joint feoffment, and let the truth of the inquisition be shown and the king certified.Coram domino rege.
Places mentioned
Brimpsfield, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
John Giffard of Brimpsfield, late husband of the petitioner.
Note
The petition is clearly in the aftermath of the revolt of Thomas of Lancaster, but would appear to date to 1323 as the petitioner's joint enfeoffment with her late husband of the manor of King's Stanley in Gloucestershire was the subject of an inquisition in Easter 1323, and the petitioner received restoration of that manor on 28 May 1323 (CIM 1307-49, no.579; CCR 1318-23, pp.651-2).
Related material

For transcript, see no.31 of PRO 31/7/99

For a petition by petitioner's husband, see SC 8/241/12015

For a related petition, see SC 8/112/5580

For a petition by the petitioner's husband, see SC 8/319/E413

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3690
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.651-2 (order to the keeper of the lands of rebels in Gloucestershire to deliver the manor of King's Stanley to the petitioner)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.579 (inquisition into the joint enfeoffment of the petitioner and her late husband in the manor of King's Stanley in Gloucestershire)
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